Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Restes du château de Belpech
Varen, Tarn-et-Garonne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Château de Belpech (restes) : inscription par arrêté du 30 novembre 1944
- Protection dates
- 1944/11/30 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 14e siècle, 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Varen
- Département
- Tarn-et-Garonne
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.16557, 1.91773
- Mérimée reference
- PA00095897
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
IGN France — GéoportailUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1778 map "17 Albi." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Le donjon conserve ses façades, couronnées par un chemin de ronde sur mâchicoulis et percées de fenêtres à meneaux et croisillons. C'est un ouvrage du 14e siècle, remanié au 15e.
English translation
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History
The keep preserves its façades, crowned by a parapet on machicolations and pierced with mullioned and transom windows. It is a work of the 14th century, reworked in the 15th.
Nearby in the register
- Maison de la Vigeriemaisonunder 1 mi
- Eglise de Puech-Mignonégliseunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Vincentéglise1 mi
- Ancien prieuré bénédictinprieuré1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.